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In this post I want to cover my route to passing the DP-500 exam. Because I found out last Friday that I passed the beta exam for it. Just to recap, the DP-500 exam is a new exam which mostly focuses on Power BI and Azure Synapse Analytics. By passing the exam I have gained … Read more
In this post I want to cover some of the ways I have been looking to improve my GitHub hygiene for Microsoft Data Platform repositories. By following some best practices. To clarify, GitHub hygiene is a term that I use to describe the practice of keeping GitHub repositories healthy. Some of you have probably noticed … Read more
Today I finally achieved a personal target of mine to gain an interesting trio of data certifications from Microsoft. I completed this mission by passing the PL-300 exam today and gaining the Power BI Data Analyst Associate certification. Which means I have now gained the below trio of data certifications from Microsoft: Azure Data Engineer … Read more
In this post I want to cover a Data Toboggan and the DP-500 exam connection. Because I find it a nice coincidence and I want to promote the DP-500 exam. Just so everybody is aware, the DP-500 exam is a new Microsoft beta exam. Its full name is ‘Exam DP-500: Designing and Implementing Enterprise-Scale Analytics … Read more
In this post I want to share a nifty Power BI fix in Synapse Studio that I found. So that you can link to Power BI workspaces that are in other Azure accounts. To clarify, Synapse Studio is the management application that comes with Azure Synapse Analytics. In order to use Synapse Studio, you must … Read more
In this post I want to cover an Azure Test Plans example for Power BI as part of a series of posts. It also helps to keep a promise I made. This post is the third in a series of posts about how Azure Test Plans can be used for deployments to various Data Platform … Read more
In this post I want to cover creating one Power BI report for both Azure Boards and GitHub. Because I covered it in a session recently. In a previous post I covered using Azure DevOps Analytics Views and Power BI to create Sprint review dashboards. During that post I showed how you can use Analytics … Read more
In this post I want to cover using Azure DevOps Analytics Views and Power BI to create Sprint review dashboards. Because it can be useful. In fact, I recently did a demo of this for Data Saturday Pordenone. By the end of this post, you will know how you can use Analytics Views and Power … Read more